The Kwara State Football Association today, welcomes a female member onto it’s Executive Committee following an election at the newly commissioned Secretariat.
Alhaja Segilola Lola Alaya,
a staff of the Kwara State Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Kwara got 15 votes to beat Chief Mrs Abimbola Olaoye, who got one of the 17 votes casted.
One vote was declared null and void.
The space has been vacant since the FA election in June 2019.
Mrs. Alaya, a member of Female Football Interest Group (FFIG) in Nigeria, will stand as the 24th member of the FA congress composed of 23 members until today.
Her mandate as approved by the Congress will be for the remaining tenure of the current board beginning immediately.
Chairman of the Association, Alhaji Idris Musa Abdullahi described the election conducted by the Electoral Committee led Alhaji Saliu Ojibara as free and fair, with democracy fully put into practice.
He advising the two candidates to work closely to better female football in the state.
